Sentences with phrase «of academic trouble»

As early as the first month of school, chronic absence (missing 10 percent of school days, an average of just two days a month) can be an early warning sign of academic trouble, whether a student is in preschool or high school.

Chronic absenteeism (missing just 2 days per month or 18 days over the school year) can be an early warning sign of academic trouble starting as early as kindergarten and preschool.

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«Among many surprising things about the life of Albert Einstein was the trouble he had in getting an academic job.»

Wood is not much troubled by the fact, which so disturbs Farley and Hough and Cobb, that the way in which academic disciplines are institutionalized in American higher education also dictates the structure of the curricula of theological schools.

By 1980, however, the somewhat chastened magazine acknowledged he was not: «God is making a comeback Most intriguingly, this is happening not among theologians or ordinary believers — most of whom never accepted for a moment that he was in any serious trouble — but in the crisp, intellectual circles of academic philosophers, where the consensus had long banished the Almighty from fruitful discourse.»

When I overheard a troubling conversation at a recent dinner about a child's academic performance, it reminded me about the importance of the words we use when speaking with our kids.

When I overheard a troubling conversation at a recent dinner about a child's academic performance, it reminded me about the importance of the words we use when speaking w...

What that means is that kids who can't learn academics because of a learning disability will have trouble dealing with more complex topics like social problem - solving, getting along with others and reading social situations.

Through a combination of therapy, academics, life skills opportunities and recreational activities, troubled teens are guided toward managing the root of their issues and learning the skills and tools needed to help manage them in a healthy way.

However, private boarding schools for troubled teens have a great deal of experience working with teens who have let their academics slip, and they have the resources for the teens to recover.

If your child is showing some of the following signs of trouble, it's time to speak with her teacher, guidance counselor, or pediatrician about some extra support in the academic or social arena.

It is even more meet that it's all happening in commemoration of Prof. Oso at 60, that pan-Nigerian academic and scholar, one of the few braves that haven't given up on the troubled Nigerian university system.

«The fact that women are capable of contributing to the nation's scientific and engineering enterprise but are impeded in doing so because of gender and racial / ethnic bias and outmoded «rules» governing academic success is deeply troubling and embarrassing,» wrote the authors of a 2007 report on women in academic science and engineering issued by the National Academies [7].

«What this paper essentially tells us is that we have important, fundamental and basic forces working in the academic hiring system that are working against diversity, and that should be troubling to everyone in higher education,» said Marcia McNutt, the editor - in - chief of Science Advances.

The marriage was in trouble — undermined by the pressures of academic life and a failed course of fertility treatments — and it ended soon afterward.

Was Miller troubled by specific transgressions of particular employers or by the deep and pervasive dysfunctional nature of the «pyramid» system of academic research, which depends on the systematic exploitation of cheap graduate student and postdoc labor?

But few academics go to the trouble of creating public archives.

The trouble is, she writes in a new article in Academic Medicine, that too many of these programs — called STEGH, or short - term experiences in global health — focus on the needs of the student trainees and not on what's best for their patients or for overall health care in the countries they visit.

Overfishing, pollution, climate change and destruction of habitats like coral reefs are all putting our seas in trouble but academics fear the risk is not being taken as seriously as concerns for the loss of animals and plants which live on land.

Dissuaded by academic pressures or personal wartime troubles, most of the other women dropped out of the program.

Richard Nelson, a professor emeritus of economics at Columbia University, finds these commercial restraints on the free flow of academic knowledge troubling from the standpoint of innovation.

«Not only do these mice have trouble learning and remembering, they can't perform some other normal daily behaviors such as building a nest,» adds C. Ronald Kahn, M.D., senior author on the paper, Joslin's chief academic officer and the Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Lucy Mazdon on Henri - Georges Clouzot, the French cinema expert and academic talks at length about the films of Clouzot and the troubled production of Inferno

Extras: «Lucy Mazdon on Henri - Georges Clouzot»: The French cinema expert and academic talks at length about the films of Clouzot and the troubled production of «Inferno»; «They Saw Inferno,» a featurette including unseen material, providing further insight into the production of «Inferno»; filmed introduction by Serge Bromberg; interview with Serge Bromberg; stills gallery; original trailer; reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Twins of Evil; First Pressing Only: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Ginette Vincendeau.

If teacher academic proficiency matters, then the long - term trends in the makeup of the teacher workforce present a troubling portrait.

Even more troubling is that 45 per cent of girls do not see the relevance of the skills they learn in PE to their lives and ultimately, issues with confidence, self ‑ consciousness, the pressure of academic school work and lack of encouragement from teachers and parents, all hold teenage girls back from being physically active.

It's small and deeply troubled, is a foundation darling, has creative new leadership, and is pursuing the popular academic ideas of the day.

A majority of parents and school officials believe that children who are troubled, whatever the cause, not only demonstrate poor academic performance and inappropriate behavior in school, but also adversely affect the learning opportunities for other children in the classroom.

Academic teachers (who tend to have college degrees in teaching) and technical teachers (who tend to come from industry) had trouble seeing eye - to - eye, lacking a common point of reference.

The academic establishment, too, disdains gifted programs, one professor at a top university telling the authors that «his school's placement office wouldn't think of sending graduates anywhere but into the most troubled and disadvantaged settings.»

I started going to school in the late 1950s, and by the fall of 1963, when I entered fifth grade, I had already accumulated a truly dismal academic record: Ds, Fs, Incompletes, and the rare C. I could bore you with a detailed analysis of my young troubles, but they weren't particularly exceptional.

Students who have trouble focusing on schoolwork are more engaged if the academic tasks reflect their interests and tap their areas of strength.

In a troubling picture of performance, the vast majority of Illinois students failed to reach the high academic bar on the new state PARCC exams, meaning they weren't on track academically for the next grade level, let alone for college or careers.

Terry Ryan, president of the Idaho Charter School Network, adds «Charter schools have provided an academic lifeline for students in troubled urban school districts for decades, yet charter opportunities are not available for most of the country's 11 million rural students.

Each such employee shall be required to complete at least one training course in school violence prevention and intervention, which shall consist of at least two clock hours of training that includes but is not limited to, study in the warning signs within a developmental and social context that relate to violence and other troubling behaviors in children; the statutes, regulations, and policies relating to a safe nonviolent school climate; effective classroom management techniques and other academic supports that promote a nonviolent school climate and enhance learning; the integration of social and problem solving skill development for students within the regular curriculum; intervention techniques designed to address a school violence situation; and how to participate in an effective school / community referral process for students exhibiting violent behavior.

And perhaps most troubling, «students with lower initial levels of academic achievement fare especially poorly in middle school.»

Such disengagement is a portent of trouble, and not just because student engagement is closely linked to academic achievement.

There is no national standard for a «high quality» charter school, but U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan wants one because recent studies have raised concerns that dozens of charter schools fall short of academic standards and are financially troubled.

They brought with them pro-school choice literature that — while paid for by a little - known, at least in North Carolina, nonprofit called Public School Options — almost exclusively plugs the controversial N.C. Virtual Academy, an online school run by for - profit operator K12 Inc. that's been troubled by high dropout rates and flagging academic numbers in its first two years of operation.

We are also deeply troubled by the prospect that if virtually unregulated teacher certification academies with little academic quality control are allowed to proliferate, the employers of their graduates will be either charter schools, many operating in high - poverty communities, or traditional public schools that lack the resources to be selective and competitive in hiring the best - qualified teachers.

Ball points to out - of - state school choice proponent Public School Options as an instigator in a campaign to advocate the state's controversial online charter school, operated by private for - profit company K12 Inc., that's been «troubled by high dropout rates and flagging academic numbers in its first two years of operation.»

I mean that school districts — particularly ones with patterns of low student performance — have trouble hiring teachers with strong academic backgrounds,

And some point out the school's academics, considering its low - income population and relatively high teacher turnover rate — about 16 percent, compared to the state rate of 13.8 percent — suggests the school is a model of stability in troubled times for such schools.

Chicago Public Schools, one of the largest school systems in the country, is reporting academic improvement in spite of past troubles.

They also, along with others troubled by New York's — particularly NYC's — notorious achievement gaps, yearned to release school leaders from the muzzle of LIFO, which requires that teachers be laid off by seniority, not effectiveness, and change old - school subjective teacher evaluations to reflect student academic growth, measured in part through standardized test scores.

With the Success Highways Elementary Resiliency Assessment, educators get the root cause information they need and can take action before signs of academic or behavioral trouble even appear.

While a record number of charter schools have opened this year, 150 were shuttered for either low enrollment, financial troubles or weak academic performance, according to NAPCS.

This is a highly controversial and unpopular stance, especially on the left, which ascribes disadvantaged children's poverty and academic troubles to oppressive social structures and defective institutions and is suspicious of projects that blame disadvantage on dysfunctional cultural norms.

He pledged to take control of the city's public schools, then under the supervision of the Board of Education, which had been ridiculed for budget troubles and stagnant academic performance.

The school was plagued by high turnover of principals (called «leaders»), troubled finances, and poor academic performance, according to WNYC radio.